The local area is teeming with things to do for all ages and all interests.
For just a very few ideas:
- Check out a great selection of walks in the area in the leaflet produced by the local Community Development Trust.
- Loch Long: Fishing, paddling, sea-kayaking, canoeing, pottery and craft gallery, children's playpark, diving. Click here to read an article about diving in Loch Long.
- The Arrochar Alps: The Cobbler and four Munros accessible on foot from the centre of Arrochar, guided mountain treks, bushcraft and survival eco adventures.
- Ardgarten (5 minutes drive): Low level walks, forest trails, mountain bike trails, guided trail biking.
- Loch Lomond: Beaches, open canoeing and kayaking, paddling and swimming, cruises, fishing, seaplane rides, spa days at local hotels.
- Lomond Shores, Balloch (25 minutes): Shopping, restaurants, play park, canoe, bike and pedal boat hire.
- Luss (15 minutes): Picturesque conservation village with beaches, easy walks, good coffee shop, and speed boat trips.
- Loch Fyne (15 minutes): Loch Fyne Oyster Bar, tree house walk, Fyne Ales brewery, Ardkinglas Gardens, Tree Shop garden centre and gift shop.
- Cowal Peninsula and Dunoon (40 minutes): Benmore Botanic Gardens, Pucks Glen walks, restaurant
- Strachur and Strathlachlan (approx. 35 minutes): Renowned Creggans Inn and Inver Cottage restaurant, Strathlachlan ruined castle.
- Inveraray (25 minutes): Inveraray Castle (home of the Duke of Argyll, head of the Clan Campbell), Inveraray Jail, Loch Fyne Hotel with swimming pool, Inveraray Golf Course, walks, The George pub and restaurant.
- Helensburgh (25 minutes): Charles Rennie Macintosh's famous Hill House, swimming pool, restaurants, supermarkets, sea front promenade, ferries to Dunoon and beyond.
- Dumbarton (30 minutes) historic Dumbarton Castle and the Scottish Maritime Museum.
- Balmaha (40 minutes): play park, forest walks, access to the West Highland Way, beach, Oak Tree Inn.
- Glencoe Ski and Mountain Bike Centre (45 minutes): Ski slopes with ski hire and lessons, downhill mountain bike courses.
- Bute (40 minutes plus 5 minutes by ferry): Mount Stuart house, gardens and restaurant, standing stones, beaches.
- Oban (1 hr 10 minutes): Restaurants, sailing, seal-watching boat trips, ferries to the islands.
- Glasgow (45 minutes): Museum of Modern Art, Kelvingrove Museum, the Transport Museum, The Burrell Collection, Science Centre, restaurants, Princes Square shopping mall, Botanic Gardens (and much more).
